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  • Setting up my own instance ended up being pretty good for me since it meant I had to manually subscribe to every community I want. The quality of "All" posts depends heavily on the instance you're on.

  • all American social media companies are guilty

    I don't disagree with you, but you're arguing about switching to another US company when nobody is suggesting that.

    The petition says:

    transition official government communications away from Twitter/X to more secure, community-regulated platforms that prioritise public safety, accurate information, and accessibility. We encourage the government to explore publicly accountable alternatives, including decentralised networks, to ensure reliable and responsible communication with Canadians.

    This seems like the opposite of American social media companies. What part do you disagree with? Facebook and Google are quite clearly not "publicly accountable alternatives"

  • Did you even read the petition? It even gives the suggestion of using decentralized networks and community regulated platforms. What part of that makes you think they're going to jump to posting on Facebook?

  • They're synonyms in this case, so either works here

  • People need to work to live, which requires looking at job postings. Shocking, I know

  • Well the study we're commenting under calls out that press releases and job postings are also becoming increasingly LLM-written. You can't avoid those simply by touching grass.

  • Not a single screen to be found! Just analog gauges and buttons as it should be.

  • Tradeoffs

    Jump
  • They mean time to write the code, not compile time. Let's be honest, the AI will write it in Python or Javascript anyway

  • The good old days of phpmybb

  • Now how do we get the rest to understand the actual percentage hasn't changed much, people are just better informed and not as scared to tell people who they are. I can already feel the negative reactions based on the headline from people who are scared of cis white males becoming a minority.

  • I always thought T&& made sense as a movable reference. In order to move something, you need to change where the reference points, so conceptually you need a reference to the original reference to update it. (Effectively a double reference)

  • This might work on the scale of a building to even out its own power usage throughout a day, but to make a difference on a city grid scale, you need an insane amount of height and/or weight.

    Check out Pumped Water Energy Storage. It's the same concept but uses water as the weight. Doing the math on the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant's active capacity, it stores over 100 billion pounds of water.

  • I'm sure the AI datacenters would have a few GW to spare if we put the LLMs on pause.

  • Is that using numbers for carbon capture from the atmosphere? Carbon capture directly on the exhaust of a fossil fuel power plant would probably be an order of magnitude more efficient. Obviously you can't sustain everything by only using fuel combustion, but you could probably reduce to total emissions per kWh quite a bit without even looking at renewables.

  • i < array.length or else you overflow.

  • Speech-to-text set to the wrong language or something?

  • They don't have to explicitly ban the Cybertruck if it doesn't pass the existing regulations. It's not legal to drive in UK/EU. You could buy one for display-only or something I'm sure.

  • Vinyl is lossy in that any dust or scratches on the record can be heard in the output, so this is only true if you've got an absolutely pristine vinyl.

  • I've realized that for a lot of things that a phone does, e-ink is too slow to refresh. Even web browsing becomes painful to navigate sometimes. Maybe a dual-screen approach would work with e-ink on one side and a regular screen on the other?